A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
Here you will find facts about obscure dinosaurs, obscure facts about well-known dinosaurs, and other material covering such topics as evolution, taxonomy, geology, and pop culture!
Venturing outside the realm of Mesozoic reptiles, here’s an overview of the mostly-Permian early diversity of our own lineage, the synapsids. The Permian Period (299-252 million years ago) was the last period of the Paleozoic Era, and was characterized by...
Part 3 of my dinosaur photography series. Lots of new birds!
Niche partitioning is a really fundamental concept in ecology that influences the way organisms live, compete, and evolve. In this post, I’m going to go over what exactly it means, how it works, and some interesting fossil examples.
Family tree: Synapsida > Therapsida > Eutherapsida > Neotherapsida > Anomodontia > Dicynodontia
In public school, I recall learning about different types of rocks and the basics of Linnean classification (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, etc; mammals, birds, amphibians, etc) in elementary school, and some of the mechanisms of evolution in high school (alleles and...
